Contemporary English Poetry: An Introduction

Providing a guide to the poetry of the first half of this century, the author discusses the general condition of poetry and then the work of all of the major poets. Some of his subjects include Gerard Manley Hopkins, Yeats, Edward Thomas and D.H. Lawrence, Eliot, Auden, Spender, MacNeice, Dylan Thomas and other poets of the 1930s and 1940s, Muir, Graves, and poetry of the 1950s and 1960s.Thwaite, Anthony is the author of 'Contemporary English Poetry: An Introduction', published 1961 under ISBN 9780435188856 and ISBN 0435188852.